Pastor Kemar T. J. Douglas, hails from the sunshine community of Portmore, St. Catherine. At age 9 he convinced his family to join him in the Adventist Church, and they were all baptised on March 25, 1990, making Kings Chapel Seventh-day Adventist Church, in Kingston, their home church.
He attended the Independence City All Age School and then the renowned Calabar High School. After completing sixth form, he matriculated, August 1997, into West Indies College, now Northern Caribbean University (NCU), as a theology student having accepted the call to the gospel ministry. In 2011 he successfully read for his Master of Arts in Religion from NCU.
Upon graduating with honours with a Bachelors of Arts degree in Religion in 2001, he worked along with Elder Anthony Gordon, as an assistant in the Communication Department of Central Jamaica Conference of Seventh-Day Adventists (CJC).
He was then assigned as a Ministerial Intern in the Clear Park and May Pen Districts of Churches, and then later as an Associate Pastor in the Family of God, Denbigh and Bog Walk Districts of Churches. He also worked with the CJC Ministerial Fraternity as Editor, Librarian, Public Relations Officer, Treasurer, and Vice-President.
In October 2004, he was assigned as the district pastor for the Mike Town District of Churches and then to the Spur Tree District of Churches. During the period 2007 to 2014 he severed CJC as Communication, Public Affairs and Religious Liberty Director. He has also served as the Associate Communication Director, Spirit of Prophecy Coordinator, Follow the Bible Coordinator, and Youth Area Coordinator.
He was ordained to the gospel minister in 2009. He enjoys teaching and preaching the word and has participated in the rescuing of over 600 precious souls for the Kingdom of God.
He is married to the elegant Essence Monroe Douglas, Attorney-at-law and this union has been blessed with three precious young boys, Kemar Jnr., Jeremiah and Christopher.Pastor Douglas enjoys teaching, listening to good music, cooking, working with his hands and interacting with children and young people. His work philosophy is, “Always leave it better than the way you found it,” but his personal motto is “Life is what you make it, so make the best of it.” His favourite hymn is “My Maker and my King”.
The passage of Scripture that he lives by is Micah 6:8, “He hath showed thee, O man, what [is] good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God.”
